A Fresh Image Software from Russia

What products from Siberia are you aware of? Bears? Counts as one. Something else? Me neither. Yet obviously there is something in Siberia besides bears and forests. Deep from the heart of Russia comes an image editor for small images. Meet Sib Icon Editor.

Is there something authentic to this product? Something to tell it's definitely from Siberia? Well, there is a bear on its welcome screen. And trees. Snowy trees. You see it every time starting Sib Icon Editor. Other than that, it's a great little utility that does precisely what the name says.

Being a lightweight tool designed for making and editing small raster images such as Windows icons, navigation buttons, toolbars and similarly tiny pictures, Sib Icon Editor is compact and runs extremely fast on any reasonably equipped machine. This is one of those tools that come handy when you need something more sophisticated than Windows-standard Microsoft Paint, but don't want to have anything in common with the monsters of the industry such as Adobe Photoshop. And Sib Icon Editor does not disappoint.

This icon editor makes it easy to create and edit icons, toolbars and other small images of any size or aspect ratio. The editor supports images of 16, 256 and 16M colors, and makes it possible to use semi-transparent alpha channels for 32-bit images.

Being a painting application, Sib Icon Editor lets you draw nice-looking icons with minimum effort. You can draw images with gradient and chess fill, and use any standard painting tools such as pens, sprays and paintbrushes. If all you need is a shadowed or disabled version of the original image, it is easy to apply semi-transparent or opaque shadows, modify opacity, smooth, invert, grayscale, colorize, modify hue and saturation, rotate, roll or mirror an image. Replacing image colors looks especially effective if you are aiming for a small change of gamma or style for the entire collection of images. Needless to say, you can save the resulting image as ICO, ICPR, BMP, JPEG or PNG files.

Besides being a graphics editor, Sib Icon Editor offers numerous features to create and manage collections of icons. Icon libraries are a perfect way to store and organize icons if you have many. You can import or export icons to and from the collections, add, edit and modify them at any time. If you obtain a nice set of Mac icons, Sib Icon Editor lets you convert them to Windows format.

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